Hyde Park is an inner-city park in Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

, Western Australia. Located within the Town of Vincent, the park is 2 km north of the CBD, surrounded by Vincent, William, Glendower and Throssell Streets.

Sloping grass areas run down to two central groundwater lakes. Shade is provided by mature introduced trees:

• Plane Trees
  Platanus
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   - around the lakes
• Moreton Bay Fig
  Moreton Bay Fig
  Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay Fig, is a large evergreen banyan tree of the Moraceae family that is a native of most of the eastern coast of Australia, from the Atherton Tableland in the north to the Illawarra in New South Wales, and Lord Howe Island. Its common name is...
  
  s - lawn area
• Port Jackson Fig
  Port Jackson Fig
  Ficus rubiginosa, the Rusty Fig, Port Jackson Fig, or Little-leaf Fig, is a tree in the family Moraceae that is native to eastern Australia...
  
   - lawn area
• Pine
  Pine
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  s - around the boundary
• Jacaranda
  Jacaranda
  Jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of South America , Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. It is also found in Asia, especially in Nepal...
  
  s - south-east corner
• Unusual tree species: Swamp Cypress
  Taxodium distichum
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  , Red Cedar, Bunya Pine
  Araucaria bidwillii
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• Remnant indigenous tree species: Eucalyptus
  Eucalyptus
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   and Melaleuca
  Melaleuca
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  .

The Town of Vincent describes the primary use of the park as "Passive Recreation". Facilities include: public toilets, playground equipment, barbecues, drinking fountains and two gazebos. Electricity is available, which is used, for example, to power temporary fairground rides.

History

The area was originally approximately midway along a series of wetland

Wetland

A wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with water either permanently or seasonally. Wetlands are categorised by their characteristic vegetation, which is adapted to these unique soil conditions....

s which stretched from Claisebrook

Claisebrook

Claisebrook is an area in the CBD of Perth, Western Australia, and may refer to:*The Claisebrook Train Station, Perth, or*The railway depot for maintaining Perth's electric trains....

 through to Herdsman Lake and included Lake Monger. The lakes and the area in which they resided were collectively known as the Great Lakes District

Perth Wetlands

The Perth Wetlands, also known as the Perth Great Lakes or the Great Lakes District, was a collection of fresh-water wetlands, swamps and lakes located on the Swan Coastal Plain north of the city of Perth in Western Australia...

. Today, only a small proportion of those wetlands remain.

Prior to European settlement, the area was known to the local Noongar

Noongar

The Noongar are an indigenous Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast...

 people as Boodjamooling. After the establishment of the Swan River Colony

Swan River Colony

The Swan River Colony was a British settlement established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia. The name was a pars pro toto for Western Australia. In 1832, the colony was officially renamed Western Australia, when the colony's founding Lieutenant-Governor, Captain James Stirling,...

in 1829, the European settlers gave it the name Third Swamp. In 1897, 15.5 hectares of Third Swamp was gazetted as a public park and two years later renamed Hyde Park.